Thiruvananthapuram, April 19 -- Us. nion Minister Pralhad Joshi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Congress and the INDIA bloc, accusing them of opposing women's reservation and "betraying" women and marginalised communitie

Speaking to ANI, Joshi said, "Recently, what Congress has done in Lok Sabha, opposing the women's reservation bill, for which we require a two-thirds majority. So we wanted the help of the Congress party and the Communist parties. But the Congress party and the INDIA alliance betrayed the total women's community. They never had a good intention."

Joshi further alleged that while the government supported the bill when it was introduced earlier, the Congress has "betrayed women and SC/ST communities from the begin...